Erewhon

Erewhon

a book by the British writer Samuel Butler ,published in 1872. Erewhon was an imaginary land discovered by a traveller, and Butler used it for asatire on Britishhypocrisy and the way society thought about crime and religion. Many years later he wrote a second book, called Erewhon Revisited.

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.